Who would have thought that feeding a baby would be complicated? It's not as cut and dry as it seems. What with allergy riskes, textures and methods of feeding there's plenty of room for confusion.
My plan was to use the "baby led solids" method. I was going to wait to give solids to Max until he was around 6 months old, unless he showed me that he was ready before then. At 4 months he was stealing food off my plate or pulling my spoon to his mouth and I took that as "feed me now woman!"
We started with green beans and have moved up through the green and orange veggies, fruit, oatmeal, and now he's self feeding chicken. We've learned that peas make him gag, carrots give him a terrible rash and apples are the BEST THING EVER.
Up&Up peach-mango Little Puffs are his favorite finger food and he's mastered getting them in his mouth by the fistfull. I tried letting him self feed cottage cheese as the curds are about the same size as a puff. He remains unconvinced that this is a good idea. The chicken is going well and I will be baking more on our next baby food day.
Right now I purchase, puree and freeze the following every month:
6 Apples
1 Large bunch of bananas
2 Avocados
3 Sweet potatoes
6 White potatoes
3 Pears
3 Peaches
1 Steamfresh bag of green beans
3 Zucchini
2 Yellow squash
Last month he also tried watermelon and I froze quite a bit to last us through the fall. Next month we're up to try cauliflower, cantelope, pineapple and kale! This is my life and what I get excited about now. Crazy!
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